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The Casino Aruba at Hilton to Host The Caribbean Poker Series

2024: A Premier Poker Event in Paradise

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Alto Vista chapel and its link to Aruba’s origins

According to Etnia Nativa, in In 1750 it was blessed by Fa- Domingo Antonio Silvester people can no longer see
the 18th century most of the ther Algamesi who came came to Aruba from Venezu- much of the town of Alto
inhabitants of Aruba were from Coro-Venezuela and ela. The elders believe Anto- Vista from 1750. With a lot
indigenous who lived on appointed Domingo Anto- nio was a Spaniard. In 1780, of work they found the old
the north coast, one of the nio Silvester as the island’s father Joseph Antonio de la foundations of the Church
largest communities lived in first prosecutor in the name Vegal called Bernardino Sil- of the Queen of the Holiest
Alto Vista. of the Spanish crown and vester, one of Antonio’s sons Rosary to build a new cha-
Rome. In 1752 the prosecu- with his wife Anna Cathalina pel on the same place. The
As they were very religious, tion passed into the hands of Tromp, “neighbors and natu- entire surrounding area was
they had a chief with the Antonio Silvester’s son-in-law, rals of the island Aruba” and empty and desolated, mak-
name of Antonio Silvester Miguel Álvarez, who contin- thus they became natives. ing it hard to imagine that Bernardino Silvester would
who guided them in the ued to guide the parishioners Alto Vista was a town at all. have lived. About 200 me-
Christian life and it was he in their prayers. At the end of the eighteen A hundred years later, peo- ters from the chapel there
who decided to build a century many inhabitants the ple can see the remains of is a water tank which the lo-
stone chapel with a roof According to the book, The island died as a result of the around twenty houses, some cals call Tanki Cacique. In
of corn rods, which would History of Alto Vista by R.H. black fever epidemic and made of stone and others of the past this tank was closed.
serve as a place of prayer. Nooyen, it is not known when since people believed that clay. Nowadays, only around But mostly water was brought
the Alto Vista area was the six of these houses remain. out from the Poz di Noord, a
most infected, they began well dug in the sand.
to build their homes further South of the chapel in the
south within the Noord area, yard two graves can be ob- The chapel can be viewed
so the town of Noord began served, there was the cem- from basically any point in
to grow into a community etery which father Pablo de the north side, even from
till getting its own Church. Algemesi blessed. It is not Paradera and Sero Plat. All
However religious festivals certain, but it is believed the historical remains around
continued to be celebrated that the two graves belong the chapel provide us with
at this sacred native place, to Antonio Silvester and an idea on how the old peo-
with the custom of arriving Miguel Alvares, according ple of Alto Vista used to live.
in procession to Alto Vista. to Nooyen. About 50 meters Don’t miss the opportunity to
near the chapel there are visit a place of historical sig-
Two-hundred years after the still the markings of an old nificance with a window to
beautiful time of Alto Vista, house, where Antonio and Aruba’s past.q